Flushing Avenue & Vanderbilt Avenue

Flushing Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. United Talmudical Academy 25 is 970 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flushing Av/Clermont Av, is 40 feet away for the B69, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them schools, and 15 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
6 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Flushing Av/Clermont Av · B69
Within a walk
6 places
3 schools, 2 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flushing Avenue & Vanderbilt Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Clermont Av, 40 feet away, for the B69.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Clermont Av B69
    40 feet
    B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Flushing Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue.

  • 28 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Flushing Ave & Vanderbilt Ave 25 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 168 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    460 feet
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33 and 35 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 98 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-6PM

East side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Greek Revival, and built in 1850.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. United Talmudical Academy 25 School
    970 feet
  2. Greene Hill School
    1,140 feet
  3. Benjamin Banneker Academy School
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic District Listed historic place
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sacred Heart Church House of worship
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flushing Avenue or Vanderbilt Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.